Misunderstanding In Moscow
- Editore:
Vintage Publishing
- Collana:
- Vintage Classics
- Traduttore:
- Keefe, Terry
- EAN:
9781784878252
- ISBN:
1784878251
- Pagine:
- 176
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Misunderstanding In Moscow
A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir.Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Russia is a beautiful, complicated place. Their guide is Macha, André's daughter from a previous relationship - a woman they both love. Adventure, inspiration, good food and good vodka are promised.Once thrilled by their romance, Nicole and André have now become too used to each other. Both harbour a growing feeling of not being fully understood - of being alone. Father and daughter engage in the grand debates of East-West relations, nationalism and socialism. But getting older, long-term relationships and how to enjoy life turn out to be the more pressing issues.